SOUTH KOREAN COSMETICS SURGERY SECTOR FORGING AHEAD WITH MINIMISED INCISION SCARS AND SHORTER RECOVERY PERIODS
August 1st, 2017
WHEN the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) released its annual set of global statistics in June (2017), and South Korea was not among the world’s 24 countries that performed the most surgical and nonsurgical procedures in 2016, there was considerable surprise. ISAPS has since confirmed to Cosmetics Business Markets that South Korea was not listed owing to data not coming in on time.
In fact, South Korea’s cosmetic surgery market, composed of more than 2,000 plastic surgery clinics, with an estimated total revenue of USD10 billion, ...
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